Martin van Staden

In a well-meaning and thoughtful piece (‘Putting the Expropriation Bill into perspective – it’s not the ugly ogre some make it out to be’) Annelize

Andrew Kenny writes that Judge Norman Davis of the Gauteng High Court issued ‘a foolish, dangerous judgment on load-shedding’ when the latter ordered government to

In March, Yvonne Phyllis wrote a scathing attack on the classical liberal theory of private property from a clearly socialistic and racial nationalistic perspective in

It is not rare today to hear calls for the wealthy to ‘pay their fair share’ in the context of taxation. But is it appropriate

Constitutionalism did not fall out of an intellectual vacuum. The fingerprints of ‘classical’ liberalism are necessarily all over it, a fact not seriously disputed by

Constitutional law is not the exclusive domain of constitutional lawyers, judges, and litigants. It is of importance to the broader legal community, including scholars, and

It used to be that heretics, witches, and others who dissented from the orthodoxy of public opinion were executed. Later, they were ‘merely’ imprisoned. Today,

The huge, ‘temporary’ 30-member cabinet President Ramaphosa announced earlier this year is larger than those of many developed countries, even discounting the 36 deputy ministers

The South African Parliament has had a tendency to produce poorly drafted and dangerous legislation, the text of which allows unjust legal outcomes to occur.

For the first time since the 1990s transition, federalism is back on the lips of many South Africans. In the last year alone, a Western